chicken feed

See also: chickenfeed and chicken-feed

English

Alternative forms

• chickenfeed, chicken-feed

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Noun

chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

1. Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
2. (idiomatic) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
   • 1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al:

     "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"

Translations

food for poultry

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• Dutch: kippenvoer (nl) n
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small quantity of money

• Finnish: pähkinät pl, hilut pl
• French: fifrelin (fr) m, trois fois rien (fr)
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• Japanese: はした金 (はしたがね, hashitagane)
• Portuguese: mixaria f